In 15.04 Vivid Vervet, how do I disable the login screen so that it drops me into a console right off the bat? Back on 14.04, I did this by uninstalling lightdm, but when I tried that on 15.04, the ...

Upon rebooting my machine The deepin splash screen began to pulsate. I looked at the boot log and found:
"* Starting LightDM Display Manager [fail]"
Upon looking at the lightdm log I found the error:
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My computer seems to be hanging when lightdm starts up when it is on the network. If I disconnect it from wired and disable the wireless prior to lightdm starting, lightdm loads as expected.
I don't ...

In trisquel the file folder looks like the first picture. Debian is the second. They both use lightdm and I installed the gtk+ greeter. Unity doesn't appear to be in the debian repos but I don't think ...

Suppose auto-login to a session is active in Ubuntu. So there will not be an opportunity to select a session (e.g gnome, unity, kde, etc). But if the environment is corrupted there is no way to escape ...

I am provisioning systems with multiple Desktop Environments (Ubuntu 14.04, with Unity and Xfce). I want to change the default DE to Xfce from a non-interactive script (for autologin with lightdm). ...

I have a system with multiple Desktop Environments installed (Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity and Xfce). I would like to configure (with a non-interactive script) a particular DE for a particular user.
How ...

I have stripped my full desktop debian 7 x64 to the bare, leaving just xorg and lightdm for a kiosk application.
I have changed the lighdm configuration to auto-login a user. When I boot, this works ...

I'd like a way to add things to $PATH, system-wide or for an individual user, without potentially adding the same path multiple times.
One reason to want to do this is so that additions can be made ...

I just installed Mint 16 and I see that root user is not available at login screen. I log in from normal user and went to "Login Window" option and there I set "Allow root login". Then I restarted the ...

I've looked at the man pages and the configuration files but found nothing (but maybe I'm missing something). I see only many options for autologin.
From a few googles I've read that the KDE version ...

I screwed up the lightdm.conf file as superuser.
What I was trying to do: I tried to insert a command (xbacklight -set 50) that sets my monitor brightness at the lightdm config file. Now when I start ...

I am not able to run my ~/.xinitrc (~/.xsession) scripts when logging into my computer. I'm using Xubuntu 12.10 with vanilla lightgm as the login manager. Both these files have the right permission ...

Lightdm is displayed properly but after entering a password and clicking login, I see the screen blink and lightdm window re-appears and asks to log in as if nothing happened.
Configs
user@laptop:~$ ...

Is there any way that I can lock the screen CLI-style? I'm trying to target as many desktop managers as possible (mostly LightDM, but GDM, KDM, SLiM, XScreensaver, etc. would be great too), but I can ...